Crime

The long-awaited trial of several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GEC) and members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) for their alleged role in 2020 electoral fraud began on Monday with questions being raised about the authenticity of the statements of poll (SOPs). Prosecutor Dharshan Ramdhani told the court presided by Magistrate Leron Daly that forensically audited ...

Police said an intelligence-led operation was conducted in Kitty, Georgetown at about 05:30 hours today (Wednesday, July 24th, 2024), during which a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found. Six persons have been arrested and are in custody assisting with the investigation. The police team, led by a superintendent, went to Lot ...

Police Wednesday morning seized several guns that were in a car parked outside the then residence of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes in March, 2021, sources confirmed. Three persons, including two women, were transported from the scene by police, according to a source. Police, in several vehicles, swooped down on the Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown location and seized the weapons. ...

Two Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers have been denied their pre-trial liberty and remanded to prison after they pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in possession of 154 pounds of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, police said Tuesday. Soldiers Clovis Sam, 31, of Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown and Adisa Higgins, 42, of Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden were arraigned ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday said it had no problem with the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigating alleged corruption in that law enforcement agency, despite calls in other quarters for an independent probe. “SOCU was designed, in 0ur view, to be that source to do police investigation and other investigation as it was ...

A taxi driver of Onderneeming/Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast is on court bail after he pleaded not guilty to assaulting a peace officer and several other related offences, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said on Monday. Jitendra Baljodah, 35, was slapped with the four charges for the offences he allegedly committed on two policemen on June 26, 2024. Suddie Magistrate, Tamieka ...

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Monday registered its concern that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was investigating alleged corruption in that law enforcement agency, and recommended that other agencies be involved in an independent probe. GCCI President, Kester Hutson told Demerara Waves Online News that in addition to the Police Service Commission, government and civil society ...

A 49-year-old man was early Sunday morning shot dead outside Boat House Bar following an argument with another man inside the entertainment facility at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara. The victim has been identified as Sherwin Hamilton, a self-employed man who resided at Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara. Investigators were told that at about 3 a.m., the man was ...

After successfully forcing three bandits out of his house early Sunday morning, a West Bank Demerara construction worker was shot dead as he confronted the trio with a cutlass in his yard at 2806 Westminster Housing Scheme. The incident involving the victim, 69-year-old Jairam Ramkishun, occurred at about 1:30 a.m., the Guyana Police Force said. According to the police based ...

Four West Demerara residents have been charged with money laundering allegedly linked to the discovery of a quantity silver-plated raw gold while they were preparing to leave on a flight bound for the United States (US), the Guyana Police Force said. They are Saffee “Chillo” Ahmad, 58; Shameena Ahamad, 52, and Ashiana Salamalay, 33, of 38 Roraima Scheme, Versailles, West ...